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Teaching Interests
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My teaching interests include teaching courses on social welfare policy, community and multicultural practice, advocacy, research methods, restorative practices, and community organizing.
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Classes Taught
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University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work
Adjunct Faculty
- Summer 2019: Community/Macro Social Work Theory and Practice (online though 2U)
- Spring 2019: Leadership and Supervision Skills
- Winter 2019: Community/Macro Social Work Theory and Practice
- Winter 2019: Grassroots Organizing for Social Justice (Developed course)
- Fall 2018: Community/Macro Social Work Theory and Practice (online though 2U)
- Fall 2018: Professional Development Seminar
- Spring 2016: Applied Practice Evaluation Research
- Winter 2016: Social Welfare Policy
- Winter 2016: Methods for Evaluating Practice and Programs
- Autumn 2015: Clinical Social Work Skills
Teaching Practicums
- Spring 2018: Restorative Approaches in Social Work
- Winter 2018: Community Organizing and Empowerment Theory
Field Instructor
- Fall 2015-Spring 2016 - 2nd Year MSW - Organizational Leadership & Policy Practice)
- Fall 2015-Spring 2016 - 1st Year MSW- Direct Practice
- Winter 2014 - Spring 2015 - Advanced Standing MSW – Organizational Leadership & Policy Practice
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Affiliate Faculty – Department of Social Work
- Fall 2017: Applied Practice Evaluation I (online through Blackboard)
- Fall 2017: Philosophy of Social Work
- Spring 2017: Applied Practice Evaluation II
- Fall 2016: Applied Practice Evaluation I
Affiliate Faculty – Department of Human Services
- Spring 2016: Research Methods and Program Evaluation (Developed course)
- Spring 2016: Homelessness and Community Response (Developed course)
- Fall 2015: Research Methods for Human Services
Field Instructor
- Fall 2017-Spring 2018 – 1st year MSW – generalist practice
Columbia University School of Social Work
Adjunct Lecturer
- Spring 2015: Foundations of Social Work Practice
- Fall 2014: Foundations of Social Work Practice
Teaching Associate
- Spring 2014: Human Behavior and the Social Environment
- Spring 2014: Advanced Research Methods
- Fall 2013: Program Evaluation in Social Services
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Invited Guest lectures
Fall 2019: Seminar in Professional Development (University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work doctoral program)
- Topic: Cultivating wellness in an unwell environment: Self-care, community, and grad school
Spring 2019: Chicanx/Latinx Youth Resistance & Student Activism (University of Denver Political Science undergraduate)
- Topic: Indigenous histories and historical trauma
Winter 2018: Theories of Social Change(University of Denver MSW program)
- Topic: Community organizing models
Fall 2018: Seminar in Professional Development (University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work doctoral program)
- Topic: Self-care and community care in the time of Trump
Fall 2018: Seminar in Professional Development (University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work doctoral program)
- Topic: Self-care and community care in a doctoral program
Fall 2016: American Political Thought (University of Colorado Political Science undergraduate)
- Topic: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Neoliberalism
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Lecturing in American Political Thought class.
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Race Matters Institute
In Spring of 2019, I, along with four other DU graduate students, was selected to participate in Race Matters: A Comparative Analysis of Global Access & Equity in Higher Education, led by Dr. Frank Tuitt, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor on Inclusive Excellence and faculty member. This trip was challenging, enlightening, and critical to my development as a committed educator.
Clicking on the link below will open the video in Facebook.
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Syllabi from courses taught
Applied Practice Evaluation.pdf
community organizing and empowerment practice.docx
community.macro social work theory and practice.pdf
HOMELESSNESS AND COMMUNITY RESPONSE.docx
leadership and supervision skills.docx
methods for evaluating practice and programs.docx
professional development seminar.docx
Research methods and program evaluation.docx
research methods in human services.docx
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Class Artifacts
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From the first day of my Community Organizing and Social Justice class. Students were provided with art materials and invited to create an artifact that represented their journey to becoming a social worker, and to enrolling in the class.
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Student representation of the power cube, a theory of power that we discussed in Community and Macro Practice.
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From the last day of Grassroots Organizing for Social Justice: A group conducted their final presentation through an activity leading the class in paper crane folding. Each fold represented a step on their journey in the class.
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Op-Eds
Students' published op-eds from my Grassroots Organizing for Social Justice Class
Kevin Sheffler Keep fighting for a living wage
Lily Kapitan What Trump's travel ban means for Colorado